Gustavo Calderon

Gustavo Calderon (died 1995) was a Colombian police captain. He was involved with police corruption as a Cali Cartel associate, and he was murdered by the cartel after being blamed for the arrest of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.

Biography
Gustavo Calderon was born in Cali, Colombia, and he became a police captain in the Colombian national police. Calderon prided himself as an "honest cop" to his DEA colleagues Chris Feistl and Daniel Van Ness, but he was secretly on the payroll of the Cali Cartel, attempting to warn Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela of an attempt to arrest him at one of his mansions. However, the real raid was being led by Hugo Martinez, and Martinez succeeded in capturing Rodriguez; Martinez discovered Calderon's suspicious behavior from the DEA agents, and Calderon was put under guard in a police car. However, Calderon managed to hotwire the car and warn Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela of Gilberto's arrest, and he failed to intercept Gilberto; he stopped a chicken truck that had originally been used to carry Rodriguez, but he only found Feistl and a trunk full of frozen chicken. Calderon's men at the airport were persuaded to stand down by Martinez, allowing for Rodriguez to be taken to a Bogota jail. Calderon was blamed for Rodriguez's capture, with Carlo Cordova and Jorge Salcedo saying that Calderon had been incompetent. Calderon was later kidnapped and taken to a mansion by David Rodriguez, who had Navegante strangle him with a plastic bag before drowning him in a swimming pool.